Education and fiscal decentralization. The case of municipal education in Chile
| Autor: | Héctor Ormeño C., Leonardo Letelier S. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Productive efficiency
Government Public Administration 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Management Monitoring Policy and Law Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Public administration Decentralization 0506 political science Political science 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration 050207 economics Administration (government) School education |
| Zdroj: | Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 36:1499-1521 |
| ISSN: | 2399-6552 2399-6544 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2399654418761888 |
| Popis: | Chile implemented a radical reform in favor of decentralization at the beginning of the 1980s, with municipalities taking over the administration of public school education. The government that came to power in 2014 is committed to revert this reform, removing public schools from municipal control. Using panel data gathered between 2005 and 2013, this study shows that municipalities with greater autonomy performed better when administrating schools. Two major conclusions may be drawn. First, selective decentralization in favor of more autonomous municipalities is a better public policy approach relative to an all across the board solution. Second, since this autonomy is very unevenly distributed across municipal governments, a renewed and more effective fiscal equalization system should be established in Chile. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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